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Spending basically zero time on this website these days (I'm much more active on TikTok ) but email me if you want to chat about working together! hi@rachelfeltman.com
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Hey! Just a quick reminder that I'm looking for work! Come to me for your editorial consulting and media training needs! Not too interested in FT at present, but plenty of my time is unspoken for, so I'm not opposed to pretty hefty contractor gigs. Threading with more info.
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Guy who has lived in NYC for two years eagerly saving pictures of the smoke-covered skyline so next year when some other place has an air quality crises he can make a condescending post with the pictures and the phrase “You’ll live.”
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While you stay the heck inside today, check out the latest ! Featuring on the IRL science scandal that inspired her latest #romcom book and unexpectedly laying the groundwork for an ancient enemies-to-lovers scenario
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the men next to me in this coffee shop have, in the past 10 minutes, discussed: -the state of decline of every city in the US (they have not visited most of them) -major weight loss -their podcasts and the "thought leaders" they want to emulate might get arrested in Texas
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the last writer's strike was really formative for me because it made my favorite show (Heroes) go completely off the rails but I stayed 100% committed as a fan because I'd imprinted on Zachary Quinto like a baby duck and I don't think a 15 year old brain comes back from that
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This week on we get the rare treat of on the air talking about—what else—video game science! And corpses. Plus telling a delightful story about the dick measuring contest of early skyscraper architecture
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The victim narrative is a favourite trope when discussing women in STEM (also, it's preferable if they are super women who are also now dead). It's also a reality for women in STEM. But it doesn't really apply in Franklin's case
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"Rosalind Franklin has been reduced to the 'wronged heroine' of the double helix. She deserves to be remembered not as the victim of the double helix, but as an equal contributor to the solution of the structure" nature.com/articles/d4158
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whenever I try to really say for so it rhymes with four (or pronounce the letter t in the middle of a word as a t instead of a d) I seriously feel like I'm doing a bit where I pretend to be fancy
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